4.26.2006
Power of Sex on men in power.........
this is nothing new but now it is scientifically proven
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193090,00.html
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this is nothing new but now it is scientifically proven
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193090,00.html
4.20.2006
(1) comments4.12.2006
http://duplication.discmakers.com/mcm/discmakers/index.jsp
PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - You might think a slump in compact disc industry would be bad news for a CD manufacturer. But no one is complaining at Disc Makers.
Sales of CDs have declined four out of the last five years and fewer sold last year than in 1995. Still, business is thriving at Disc Makers, a Pennsauken company that made more than 30 million audio CDS last year, up 11 percent from 2004.
The company, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, began loosening its ties with the mainstream recording industry nearly 20 years ago. Until then, Disc Makers' main business was wooing big contracts to manufacture records for the big record labels.
Now, Disc Makers does not seek any of those contracts.
Instead, it sends catalogs and attends trade shows in an effort to win the business of musicians one by one, helping do-it-yourselfers do it themselves. With its DVD service, it does the same thing for aspiring filmmakers.
Disc Makers is not a record label, so it does not choose which CDs to make. And while it offers help — displays for selling CDs, for example, and coupons for hosting services for musicians' Web sites — it does not promote the recordings it replicates.
It is also not a recording studio. Artists record their music elsewhere — anywhere from a pricey studio in Sweden to a home computer in their basement — and send it to Disc Makers.
In its factory outside Philadelphia, the company manufactures CDs and prints the labels for them in batches as small as 300. The price for 300 discs starts at $300. The company has engineers who tweak the recordings to make them sound cleaner and graphic designers who assemble the packaging.
Without distribution deals, Disc Makers' customers sell their music on their own at concerts, independent record stores and through online outlets such as CD Baby. Ben Kihnel, customer service person for the online store, said far more of its products were manufactured by Disc Makers than by any other company.
That's why some musicians — even those well-known enough to record for labels — admire Disc Makers as an alternative to a mainstream recording industry that is hardly loved by musicians.
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PENNSAUKEN, N.J. - You might think a slump in compact disc industry would be bad news for a CD manufacturer. But no one is complaining at Disc Makers.
Sales of CDs have declined four out of the last five years and fewer sold last year than in 1995. Still, business is thriving at Disc Makers, a Pennsauken company that made more than 30 million audio CDS last year, up 11 percent from 2004.
The company, celebrating its 60th anniversary this year, began loosening its ties with the mainstream recording industry nearly 20 years ago. Until then, Disc Makers' main business was wooing big contracts to manufacture records for the big record labels.
Now, Disc Makers does not seek any of those contracts.
Instead, it sends catalogs and attends trade shows in an effort to win the business of musicians one by one, helping do-it-yourselfers do it themselves. With its DVD service, it does the same thing for aspiring filmmakers.
Disc Makers is not a record label, so it does not choose which CDs to make. And while it offers help — displays for selling CDs, for example, and coupons for hosting services for musicians' Web sites — it does not promote the recordings it replicates.
It is also not a recording studio. Artists record their music elsewhere — anywhere from a pricey studio in Sweden to a home computer in their basement — and send it to Disc Makers.
In its factory outside Philadelphia, the company manufactures CDs and prints the labels for them in batches as small as 300. The price for 300 discs starts at $300. The company has engineers who tweak the recordings to make them sound cleaner and graphic designers who assemble the packaging.
Without distribution deals, Disc Makers' customers sell their music on their own at concerts, independent record stores and through online outlets such as CD Baby. Ben Kihnel, customer service person for the online store, said far more of its products were manufactured by Disc Makers than by any other company.
That's why some musicians — even those well-known enough to record for labels — admire Disc Makers as an alternative to a mainstream recording industry that is hardly loved by musicians.
4.06.2006
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